SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if, having regard to the operation of the 50 per cent. rule to entitle a Volunteer battalion to pay and allowances for going into camp for fourteen days, and the number of Volunteers who will therefore be deprived of the training the Government now thinks essential, he will allow provisional or composite regiments to be formed on the same lines as in the past.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMOne of the most important objects of the Volunteer camps is to enable the men belonging to battalions and brigades to train together. The object in view would not be attained by the formation of provisional or composite regiments as suggested. The Secretary of State for War does not therefore consider it expedient to permit the formation of such regiments.